Library news
Photo competition winners!
A massive thank you to all who entered our Library photo competition, and well done to the winners.
Winning photos will be displayed in our new bookable rooms. Each room is named after something you would find on the moorlands surrounding Bradford, whether that's a plant, animal or even a famous farmhouse.
The photos were anonymised when the judging took place.
Congratulations to:
Beehive room: Debbie Alstead, Executive Assistant to the Academic Registrar
Bilberry room: Arwa Almazrouei, Student
Bracken room: Shell Peart, Student
Butterfly room: Catherine Mercer, Directorate Support Administrator
Curlew room: Pete Dilley, Admissions Officer
Heather room: Paul Loadman, Professor of Pharmacology (the competition overall winning photo)
Ingleborough room: Steve Gilley, Director of Infrastructure
Limestone room: Steve Gilley, Director of Infrastructure
Oak room: Tracy Holmes, Lead Teaching Technician
Skylark room: no entries
Swaledale room: Arwa Almazrouei, Student
Top Withens room: Tim Green, English for Academic Purposes Lecturer
A new reader for our Proquest eBook downloads
Those of you regularly downloading eBooks to read from our vast collection of titles provided by Proquest on their eBook Central site will have used the Adobe Digital Editions reader. This app has been available on the University cluster PCs as well as for downloading to your own devices.
On 23 July, the Adobe Digital Editions app will be replaced by the eBook Central Reader. After this date only the new reader app will be available to use.
What you need to know:
- Reading online on the eBook Central site will not be affected.
- You will continue to search, browse and read content online as before and manage your bookshelves using the familiar eBook Central web interface.
- Your current bookshelf content and notes will migrate automatically to the new app. You need not do anything.
- Your current downloads will continue to be accessible on the new app.
- Only downloaded content needs the new app installing.
- How to install the new app to up to six devices is simple. Please view a demo and read instructions.
How to familiarise yourself with the new app:
- Book a demo session to learn how to download a new eBook to the Reader app; read a downloaded title; manage your devices and where to get additional help.
- View the walkthrough video on how to install and use the app.
- Read the instructions on how to install the app.
Contact lib-webadmin@bradford.ac.uk or your Subject Librarian for help.
Broaden Bradford's Books
Your University Library supports University of Bradford’s decolonisation strategy and is committed to provision of inclusive and diverse collections. Broaden Bradford’s Books is an initiative for our staff and students to help us with our aim to increase the diversity of our library collections. For example, broadening the range of books in our Library to support a more diverse curriculum, improving the representation of research from the Global South, and, increasing the range of books by and about LGBT+ people. We also welcome suggestions to include in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Resource bank which the library has started to develop to support the University’s EDI work.
Please complete the form with any suggestions you have. All suggestions will be reviewed by our Subject Librarian team. Books may be purchased in eBook or print format.
Thank you!
University of Bradford Library Team
Poetry competition winners
Congratulations to everyone who entered the poetry competition inspired y our Yorkshire moorland themed group study rooms in the Study Hub. More than 40 entries were submitted by students and staff and judged anonymously by a panel.
Overall winner
"Top Withens (In Winter)" by David Roper-Newman
Winners
"A Beehive's Hum" by Charlotte Barton
"Bracken" by Louise Dawson
"Wings of Whimsy" by Haiqa Akbar
"Heather" by Louise Dawson
"The Mighty Oak" by Amjad Husain
"The Heart of Swaledale" by Sana Khan
Highly commended
"The Oak Tree" by Louise Dawson
"Ruins" by Hasnehn Haider
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